Health professions education (HPE) researchers are regularly asked to articulate their use of
theory, theoretical frameworks, and conceptual frameworks in their research. However, all …

Context Research environments, or cultures, are thought to be the most influential predictors
of research productivity. Although several narrative and systematic reviews have begun to …

Competency-based medical education (CBME) is both an educational philosophy and an
approach to educational design. CBME has already had a broad impact on medical schools …

Medical Education 2010: 44: 358–366 Context The growing popularity of less familiar
methodologies in medical education research, and the use of related data collection …

From 1940 to 1980, studies of medical education were foundational to sociology, but
attention shifted away from medical training in the late 1980s. Recently, there has been a …

Research on faculty development has focused primarily on individual participants and has
produced relatively little generalizable knowledge that can guide faculty development …

The purpose of medical education is to benefit patients by improving the work of doctors.
Patient centeredness is a centuries old concept in medicine, but there is still a long way to …

Since the latter part of the 1990's, the English-speaking medical education community has
been engaged in a debate concerning the types of research that should have priority. To …

Qualitative research encompasses multiple research methodologies, including ethnography,
grounded theory, case study, phenomenology, narrative inquiry, action research, and …

Context Despite a demand for educational expertise in medical universities, little is known of
the roles of medical educators and the sustainability of academic careers in medical …